Self-Indulgence: Why I'm a Fan of Frances Ruffelle

It's fashionable at times to dislike certain people.  Be they entertainers, politicians, athletes, people from your home town...it seems like there are certain folks that others pick on when they want to trash someone.

9 times out of 10, the someone being picked on is someone that I like or adore.  Even if I don't know them personally...well, everyone has their favorite celebrities, right?

A Life of Horror and Wonder

Repost from last year, but I like this, so...

214 years ago, at twenty minutes past 11 on the night of 30 August, 1797, a baby girl was born to a pair of intellectuals residing in Somers Town, London, England.  She was named Mary, after her mother.

In less than two weeks, the mother was dead.

One More Dawn...One More Day...Pile...of...Crap...

So, I'm a fairly big fan of "Les Misérables" (me saying that to most people who know me is akin to me saying "Hi, I'm Lela.  Have you met me at all?")

No, I'm not just a fan of the musical.  I first fell for the book, reading an unabridged translation between the ages of 7 and 9 (hey, I was a slower reader than, and to be fair, it WAS almost 1500 pages!)  Of course, I've always been a big fan of musicals (on the Nature-versus-Nurture side of that matter, I'll speak later) so when I found out that there was a musical of "Les Misérables," well hell, I didn't need any encouragement to go and find a copy of the soundtrack.  But then, I've got plans for a series of posts discussing my love for almost all things "Les Misérables" later on.  What I want to talk about right now is the recent performance by the U.S. National Touring Cast of the musical on the TV show "America's Got Talent"